E FILING PAST YEARS

[F A Henry]

I work in a tax office that currently uses ATX and Pro Series and ProSeries allows efiling up to 3 years in arrears; does anyone know why this function is not available in ATX and how is ProSeries able to allow efiling past years.

Thanks,

Fitzroy.

[jklcpa]

Did the firm purchase the prior year ATX programs? 

ATX definitely allows e-filing of prior year returns, and in order to do that, the office must be a current ATX customer, meaning the office currently has access to the ATX server, AND the office must have each of those prior years' ATX programs. 

[BulldogTom]

What Judy said, plus you need to have a credit card on file to pay the fees.   The one I did this year, they did not charge me for, or at least it has not shown up on my Credit Card yet.   

Tom
Modesto, CA

[Gail in Virginia]

ProSeries is able to allow filing three years because the IRS allows filing three years.